Friday, October 28, 2011

Blood Test or Not?

Had fun riding the rattan horse in Dr Koe's clinic!
2 weeks ago we finally brought Darling to see the highly recommended Dr Koe Swee Lee, a consultant pediatrician & lactation consultant. Was planning to get the allergy blood test which she explained to me on the phone the other day.

Went there at about 10.15am & we're at #19 of the queue! Some families went for lunch in between so we got to skip a few slots earlier, only waited for about an hour, not too bad on a Saturday right?

Dr Koe doesn't recommend the allergy blood test especially at this young age, as the result won't be accurate. She did a few test with other patients & was very disappointed cuz couldn't find any culprit.

I shared with her on our case & diagnosis of the stool with streaks of blood. She explained that lactose intolerance is very rare in babies. If it does occur it will be from the day they born, & not after few months. Symptoms are vomitting & diarrhoea. So far Darling never experience those.

But the fact that I'm on a strict elimination diet & that still happening, it really worries me. Hence the decision of taking the allergy blood test, however that she doesn't seem to recommend. She said that happened only twice in last month, with only very little fine lines of blood & tiny bit of mucus. That indicated improvement of her condition.

Elimination Diet (Continue Next Page)


So she advised me to observe while continue on the strict diet, but added more food on my elimination list. So the list now looks like:

- dairies (yogurt, cheese, chocolate, milk..)
- wheat/ gluten (noodle, bread, biscuit, cake..)
- eggs
- soy (bean, tofu..)
- nuts (peanut, tree nuts, coconut!)
- seafood (prawn, crab, squid..)

Added my own choices, for the safe side:
- beef (cow protein)
- lamb (?)

Allergy Blood Test

Dr Koe's Allergy Blood Test - RM384, inclusive of:
- Allergic antibody - whether it's present in baby's body
- House dust mites
- Egg White
- Cow milk
- Fish
- Wheat
- Peanut

I'm determine to do this very wholeheartedly, strictly without stealing any tiny bite here or there. I just wanna do more than my very best for my little Darling.

Sweet Pea Mom
xoxoxo

Have your little one taken any allergy test?

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